English Explanatory Dictionary

Famicom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Family Computer (chiefly those available within Japan).

Word forms

Famicom Famicoms

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ファミコン (famikon), a syllabic abbreviation of ファミリーコンピューター (famirīkonpyūtā), a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from family + computer.

Derived words

Famiclone
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